Su Chengyu looked thoughtfully to the north, and the confusion after coming to this world began to gradually disappear.

"Since you can't escape, why don't you give it a go and end this disaster!" Su Chengyu's eyes became firm, "Even though the momentum of the Qing army is extremely fierce at this time, I know the trend of history, there is technology beyond this era, and with the identity of the imperial prince, the victory or defeat is not yet known!" ”

He remembered the Opium War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Eight-Nation Coalition in his previous life...... Scenes of humiliating histories come to mind. If the defeat of the Manchus allowed the Ming Dynasty to continue, a Han-ruled China, these tragic histories would probably not have happened!

Historically, the Qing court has ignored or even hindered the development of science and technology. Only when technology is stagnant can their mounted archery always have an advantage, which is convenient for suppressing the resistance of the Han Chinese.

Since then, the technological gap between China and the West has widened, and it is not until after a century of humiliation that the country begins to catch up with the West, and the price paid is known only to the Chinese.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of the seventeenth century did not lag much behind Europe in terms of science and technology, and it is very likely that it will be transformed into modern science in time, especially with the guidance of modern people, the industrial revolution may not be the turn of Europeans.

If anything, it could be done all over again...... Now that I have the opportunity to do it all over again......

Su Chengyu was silent for a long time, suddenly clenched his fists hard, and burst out a few words from between his teeth, "Da Ming, you can't die, you won't die!" ”

Now that he had decided to make a big move, he quickly put aside all other thoughts and began to concentrate on thinking about ways to save Da Ming.

"In troubled times, military strength is the decisive factor." "And fighting a war is nothing more than three elements—money, people, and weapons." ”

Thinking of this, Su Chengyu sighed, the current Ming Dynasty has achieved the worst in these three aspects, otherwise with the huge size of the Ming Dynasty, how could it be destroyed by Houjin, who only has a population of hundreds of thousands.

First of all, the tax policy at the end of the Ming Dynasty was extremely unreasonable - the gentry did not pay taxes. As a result, a large number of landlords and wealthy merchants were attached to the gentry to evade taxes, resulting in almost all tax pressure falling on homesteaders.

As a result of the turmoil, the imperial court continued to raise tax rates to pay for military expenses, and finally a large number of peasants went bankrupt due to heavy taxes. The bankruptcy of the peasants brought about the collapse of the imperial court's tax revenues and the bankruptcy of the government's finances.

Secondly, the Ming army's guard system is equivalent to the "agricultural reclamation corps", and its combat effectiveness is already average, and the officers continue to forcibly seize the soldiers' land, and the "agricultural reclamation" is gone, but they still have to go to the front line to fight hard. The impoverished troops were inevitably demoralized, their military discipline was extremely corrupt, and they were about to collapse at the slightest touch of a battle, but they were more fierce than the rogues and the Qing army when they robbed the common people.

Although the imperial court later actively adopted the conscription system, the poor treasury could not pay the military salary at all. Serious wage arrears led to frequent mutinies, looting, and surrenders among the recruited soldiers, who were even worse than the guards.

Finally, in terms of weapons, the Ming Dynasty also engaged in a lot of advanced weapons by learning from Europe and innovating on its own. However, the conservative thinking of the officials, coupled with the fact that the poor imperial court had no money to build new equipment, led to a large number of Ming troops still fighting with the muskets of the last century, which can only be won.

Su Chengyu, a latecomer, naturally has a lot of countermeasures to these shortcomings.

For example, the financial aspect. In fact, the Ming Dynasty was not poor, but the wealth was concentrated in the hands of the Jiangnan gentry and wealthy merchants. All it takes is to reform the tax system and make them pay some taxes, and the government's finances will soon recover.

In addition, the volume of foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty was extremely staggering, and if the maritime ban could be abolished to encourage foreign trade, the trade surplus with Japan alone would be enough to support the war against the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, the Qing court could only look at it and drool in this regard, because the ports of China's foreign trade were concentrated in Fujian and Guangdong, both of which were still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, as long as the strategy is correct, relying on the economy alone, it will be possible to drag down the Qing court in twenty or thirty years!

Naturally, the military should first abolish the guard system, and then implement the military service system of modern countries, supplemented by a modern training system, to build a new-style army.

The Eight Banners Army now seems invincible, but it is still an old-style army under the feudal system. In terms of morale, discipline, combat skills, and other aspects, it is by no means comparable to a modern army that arms its minds with discipline and honor.

Su Chengyu remembered reading a set of data before: In the war of the feudal era, the death rate of any army on either side would basically collapse if it reached 10%. By the time of World War II, the threshold for the collapse of a near-modern trained army had been raised to 30 percent. The People's Liberation Army, which emphasizes discipline, has repeatedly failed to collapse after 90 percent of its casualties on the Korean battlefield. One can imagine how crumbling the US troops on the opposite side were when they saw such an enemy.

You must know that in the era of front-loading muskets, more than eighty percent of the casualties in the war were caused when they were chased by the enemy after the collapse. In other words, whoever collapses first is finished. In this regard, the modern army has an overwhelming advantage over the feudal army!

In terms of equipment, it is even less of a problem, although due to the limitations of the current processing level, Su Chengyu cannot make aircraft and tanks, but it is certainly not a big problem to realize the weapon system of the Napoleonic era.

As long as these are realized, the army with a generation gap in training uses weapons with a generation gap, and Su Chengyu has absolute confidence in driving the Manchurians back to his hometown! Oh no, their hometown is also Ming!

However, this is easier said than done, and there are many difficulties in implementing these ideas.

If you want to reform bad governance, you have to have power and influence. If you want to reform the military service system, you have to have military power. To equip new weapons, we must first invest a lot of money, and we must not miss the training of craftsmen and the construction of a production system.

None of these are available to him for the time being.

The meal had to be eaten one bite at a time, and things had to be dealt with one by one, Su Chengyu sighed, "Let's start with small things first." ”

"It's always okay to get new weapons and equipment right now." He first thought of this field that could be solved purely by technology, "The place where Daming makes weapons seems to be called the Ordnance Bureau. ”

Only then did he realize that Zhu Linmiao didn't have this place in his memory.

"Qiao Qian, where is the Weapons Bureau?"

"On the outskirts of the city to the south. Do you want to? ”

"Take me to the Armory." Su Chengyu said and pulled up Qiao Qian to leave.

"Ordnance? Master, that's more than 20 miles away! I'm going to prepare the car! Qiao Qian was quite surprised in his heart, when he was in Fujing in the future, the prince was bored in the palace almost all day long, and even if he went out, he was looking for someone to recite poems and write poems, and at this time he was going to go to the Ordnance Bureau?! But he thought in his heart, but he didn't dare to say more.

The carriage went extremely slowly, and Su Chengyu couldn't wait to sweep a shared bicycle and ride it, it was estimated that it was faster than this!

Along the way, he carefully sorted out the resources he could use, combined with the current situation of Daming, how to realize his plan step by step, and the outline of a blueprint gradually appeared in his mind.